I think it's great. Having organization (so you can minimize dupes and easily sort through items) would be a great next project and would keep the utility high. Per the other post, i think you could do a little bit to make it an interesting source of leads for anyone who tries to solve one of the posted problems.
Actually it seems like this is easy to monetize? Selling ad space to people who develop these apps and want users? It's a great idea and a great lead gen for anyone trying to build solutions for some of these things.
He could fence it so it shows a user pic and the display name, but not the twitter handle and without a link to their twitter profile. So for any idea he knows who submitted it and who voted it up, and can offer their twitter handles as lead information to someone building that app..
It's my default resume too - i send it anywhere i'd otherwise write up context on professional history. And the need for a separate service that does that is absolutely clear.
But the real question is whether linked-in does the best possible job at this or if some other new, hypothetical service could do better? In the same way that myspace was once my default social presence, but now facebook is exclusively.
Totally agree. There is a huge cost to supporting hardware combinations and a huge perception problem that it generates (what if mac osx takes 3 seconds longer to resume on a given hardware platform? what impact does that have on their image?)
Also what about the software maintenance costs? Right now Apple has all sorts of shortcuts they can take with servicing because they have < 15% share, low penetration in enterprise, etc. The costs on that will go way up if their share increases dramatically.
I think the problem with articles like this is they come from this altruistic "osx seems nice so it should be everywhere" idea. This is exactly the idea that has made life hard for windows - that it must support a huge software and hardware ecosystem, and it must work everywhere, and MS must pay the costs associated with that.
And at the end of the day MS makes less money per PC sold than Apple makes per Mac.
Nice work!